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Format: Quality Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: Oct 2011
Genre: Fiction - Science Fiction - General
Retail Price: $18.99
Pages: 240
The first book in Philip K. Dick's defining trilogy (followed byThe Divine InvasionandThe Transmigration of Timothy Archer),VALISis a disorienting and bleakly funny novel about a schizophrenic man named Horselover Fat (who just might also be known as Philip Dick); the hidden mysteries of Gnostic Christianity; and reality as revealed through a pink laser.VALISis a theological detective story, in which God is both a missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime.
Taking place in the same universe as Dick's soon-to-be-publishedExegesis,VALISis a dense novel, but one that is absolutely essential to understanding the author's off-kilter worldview.